Improvement in railway rail-chairs



' JOHN 1c. WAN-D S. Improvement in Railway Rail Chairs. N0.124,646.

F y Patented March 12, 1872.

i NITED STATES I JOHN C. WANDS, QF NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.

IMPROVEMENT IN R'AILWAY RAIL-CHAIRSQ Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 124,646, dated March 12, 1872.

Specification describing an Improved Mode of Fastening Railroad Chairs, invented by JOHN C. WANDS, of Nashville, in the county of Davidson and State of Tennessee.

The invention will first be fully described, and then clearly pointed out in the claims.

Figure l is a horizontal section; Fig. 2 a

transverse vertical section.

A A represent rails whose ends are to be ment; B, a chair; 0, a wedge; D, a spike. is a lug, fitting into a slot of its point driven against the incline d, which curves and bends said point outwardly.

The effect of this fastening is to give both a perpendicular and lateral pressure upon the rail, to serve both as a fish-bar connection and chair, and to prevent either end of rail from getting higher than the other. The rail is thus deba-rred any movement whatever except for expansion and contraction. 1

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. The wedge 0 0,13 B Z) d, and spike D, combined, constructed, and applied to a rail, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with the spike D, of the incline d on chair, as and for the purpose set forth.

Witnesess: JOHN (J. WANDS.

J. O. RIORDAN, J. L. BURNHAM. 

